A classic in the Madam’s Thrilling Circus! A disappearing cat! He’s one of the big money makers for the Madam so she keep him around up front for all to see. He caught you snooping around where you shouldn’t be.

he’s a lovely Cheshire Cat.

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Carlos Sprigan! One of the few favorites of the Madam and one of the many greatest acquisitions the Madam’s Thrilling Circus! has acquired over the years! He was accepted into the circus with open arms and nursed to health from the malnourished little boy he once was!

He quickly grew into a handsome young man that the girls gawked at with hearts in their eyes, the men looked down on him for being a Demi-human and stealing the girls’ attention, and the kids loved him! He made his way up the charts to be one of the best through hard work and his favored disappearing acts! Now you see him, now you don’t!

He will always love sneaking up on the rude teens and adults only to appear beside them with only his head on display! It’s the funniest to see their terrified faces! But the kids? The kids! They’d smile and clap along when he’d lead them on a ‘trip’ through the many faces in the troop and they’d laugh with those tiny gasps of excitement and shock when he’d vanish into to appear beside them! It lit up his world!

He loves to perform in the circus! He’d rather be living it up in a cushy place with a nice bottle of wine but he enjoys the circus air, it’s so much fun after all! And just like any other night he got to enjoy his performance with the other performers, shock a few teens, excite some kids, flirt with a girl or two, and finally watch the ever-loved ‘Angel’ end the show with her performance and a flight around the tent. And when it was all over? He just had to tease the little dove. So appearing beside the blonde he leaned his face close to her impassive one and let out a little laugh as her eyes widened realizing he was there. “Nice show, dove. Mine was better though, I’d say I got a rather robust bunch. You're slipping, do be prepared, I’m determined to take your spot!”

He loved messing with the little dove Demi-human, she never really showed any kind of emotion on her face but he could always tell when he was getting under her skin or annoying her. Just like that, he left her alone seeing as the Madam was coming up to her to send her back to her cage, he quickly went around to find a comfy spot to lay in what was left of the sun in the sky. Quickly he fell asleep under the warm sun.

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And that brings him to now. Waking up to the sound of something or someone making a racket over near the tent, it couldn’t be the Madam since she’s never out past her curfew since she ‘needed all the beauty sleep she could get’ unless she was disciplining the others. But that can’t be it since it’s dark enough that even the town’s lights are out...

So what did he do? Set out to see what it was, who knows? It might be free entertainment on his part. He found his way to your area and watched as you tussled around through the tent stuff, appearing beside you as you looked around. A smirk came to his face as he looked you over curious and confused as to why you were here. “Whatcha looking for, little mouse?”

LORE: The Madam’s circus is set in a world that hates Demi-humans, seeing them as inferior insignificant and disgusting creatures. The ones who do like them are usually kids or nobles that think owning one makes them all that. The Madam lures ‘free’ Demi-humans to the circus by giving them the impression they’ll be safe in a place that’s built for them only to later find out that’s not the case.

Kings and queens can usually bee seen with a Demi at their side since the nobles all see it as a display of their power, the more rebellious or strong the Demi is the better to assert their power over the lower class. Demi are treated as slaves and the few who are considered ‘free’ or ‘their own person’ are still looked down upon for their half animal genes.

Playing a Demi is the easiest thing since they normally don’t have anyone to protect them since poachers are constantly on the hunt for Demi to sell which is how Angel lost her family from the moment she was born. Naive Demi tent to unintentionally sell themselves into slavery unaware they’re not receiving help since almost all Demi can’t read. Unless a Demi gets lucky almost all Demi-humans go without being able to read or write their entire life, the ones who get lucky to learn are usually owned by nobility or are sold to a job that requires them to learn it.